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DRESS STAY. No. 512,113. Patented Jan; 2, 1894.

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UNITED JULIUS JANOWITZ, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

DRESS-STAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 512,113, dated January 2, 1894- Application filed September 2, 1893. Serial No. 484,614- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J ULIUS J ANOWITZ, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Dress-Stays, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to that class of stays which are covered with rubber or other suitable compound and is designed to provide an improvement thereon to prevent their breaking when in use or rusting after washing or from the perspiration of the wearer.

To this end the invention consists in the peculiar construction hereinafter more particularly described and then definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings-Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a stay constructed according to my improvement,with part of the covering represented as broken away. Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line 0000, Fig. 1, on a larger scale. Fig. 3 is a similar section on the line 'y y, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a similar section showing a wire of different form.

Heretofore it has been proposed to cover single steel stays with rubber and an example of this is shownIin my Patent No. 496,318, but such stays cannot be sewed through as is required in making dresses of the better class, unless the steels are perforated, and if so perforated they are so weakened at the point of perforation as to be almost sure to break under the strain to which they are subjected. To remedy this it has been proposed to use double or twin stays and cover them with textile material sewed on to the stays. This, however, is also objectionable as the steels rust under perspiration and after washing, and this destroys the stitching, so that they not only iron-mold the clothing of the wearer but they become loose and annoying beside.

To overcome these difficulties is the object of my invention, which I do by embedding duplex or twin steels in a suitable composition, such as rubber or similar compounds.

Referring now to the details of the drawingsA represents two steel wires of any approved cross section but preferably either flat as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 or corrugated as shown in Fig. 4. These are united at the ends by metal tips B clasping the ends at top and bottom and the whole is covered with a suitable compound, such as rubber O, or other suitable material which when it has been vulcanized or hardened not only forms a hard elastic coating, but also fills in, or partially so, the space between the two wires, and firmly unites them along their entire length so as to make them practically one piece. If preferred, the ends of the stays may be formed with cushioned ends as in my Patent No. 496,313. The rubber is preferably perforated at several places along the center between the steels as shown at D; or the material betweenthe steels may be solid, but owing to the absence of steel in the middle, it can be sewed through with a needle in the same manner as whalebone or horn, and to facilitate this there is a slight channel in the covering between the steels as shown in Fig. 4.

The covering may be of the same thickness from end to end, or it may be reinforced by slight projections in line with the holes D,so that there shall be no weakening of the stay due to the perforations, but I do not consider this essential, as the steel forms the most active part of the spring.

Although I show the rubber perforated and reinforced, I do not limit myself to this, for the coating maybe leftimperforate, as it may be very readily perforated by the seamstress especially as the compound I use is easily penetrated, although it is very strong and elastic. I prefer to make the stays as above described, but it is evident that said stays can be made of a single spring having a slit cut through its center, thus avoiding the necessity of using the clasps; and where in the following claims the term twin wire stay is used, I mean to cover my stay in any of the forms herein described.

I do not limit myself to the making of short stays with metal clasps as shown, as I may make them in long lengths without clasps so that dress and corset makers may cut them up into short stays to suit themselves.

It will be observed that in my construction there is added to the twin stay another substance that has a resiliency of its own, and thus tends to reinforce the steel portion of the material, and moreover the rubber or other composition firmly holds the twin steels in the same position relative to each other,

as it is firmly unitedthereto, thus forming a stiffer spring with the same weight of steel independent of the elasticity of the rubber or composition covering.

What I claim as new is- 1. A twin wire stay havinga hard resilient waterproof coating, covering the two members of the stay on all sides, and forming a filling connecting the two contiguous edges of said members, substantially as described.

2. A twin wire stay covered with vulcanized rubber having a filling of the same between the wires, firmly uniting their inner JULIUS JANOWITZ.

Witnesses:

O. REINSOHI-LD, H. E. SLOANE. 

